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🔏 Ring Signatures: Proving You're One of a Group Without Saying Who

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Real signer: Hidden
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🔏 Ring Signatures: Proving You're One of a Group Without Saying Who

This simulator demonstrates how a ring signature is assembled from one real private key and several decoy public keys, and how the resulting proof verifies against the whole group without exposing the true signer.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

This simulator demonstrates how a ring signature is assembled from one real private key and several decoy public keys, and how the resulting proof verifies against the whole group without exposing the true signer.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a ring size and a position for the real signer, then step through the construction to watch the closed loop of equations form and see how verification succeeds without revealing the signer's identity.

💡 Did You Know?

Monero transactions typically mix each real spent output with over a dozen decoys pulled from the blockchain's history, meaning an outside observer faces well over a dozen equally valid candidates for every single spend.